DJ, YES!!! I will get this up as a biography today. Thank you so much! I did make 2 little changes. I mentioned that the 1985 update also identified the wrong SN. I corrected one spelling error, as well. Take a look and tell me what you think, under biographies. Thanks a million! Genially, Cynthia www.rootsweb.com/~ohlake/ On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:56:47 -0500 "djweber" <djwdjw@ix.netcom.com> writes: > Cynthia, > > How about.... > > djweber > djwdjw@ix.netcom.com > --------------------------------- > > > Stephen Norwood 1762-1842 > > Stephen Norwood was born in 1762 and died in East Painesville, > Perry > Township, Lake County, Ohio in August 1842, aged eighty years. The > death > date is either August 1, 1842 or August 15, 1842; there are two > conflicting > markers within the cemetery identifying the date of death. > > He is buried in Perry Township in the South Ridge Cemetery, Lane > Road and > South Ridge Road, near the little Church. > > In 1902 in "A Record of the Revolutionary Soldiers buried in Lake > County, > Ohio" prepared by the New Connecticut Chapter, Daughters of the > American > Revolution, Painesville, Ohio, Stephen Norwood was identified as > having > served with the America forces in the Revolutionary War. This may > or may > not be correct but the Daughters of the American Revolution identied > Stephen > Norwood incorrectly by using service information of another Stephen > Norwood > from the Commonweath of Massachusetts. > > The Stephen Norwood buried in South Ridge Cemetery was very possibly > born in > the New York Colony, parents Stephen and Anna/Hanna Norwood. > Stephen, his > family and several other related Norwood families moved to Lake > County in > the late 1820s from the Livingston Manor area of Columbia County, > New York. > > He was accompanied in his move to Lake County by the family of his > brother > David Norwood, his older daugher Mary Norwood Wilson and his son or > nephew > Francis Norwood who eventually moved to Trumbull County. His wife > was > Elisabeth Welch who died December 11, 1859 and is also buried in the > South > Ridge Cemetery. Several additional children remained unmarried or > childless > and their remains are buried near Stephen Norwood in the South > Ridge > Cemetery. > > The Norwood male line of Stephen Norwood did not continue but Ford > and > Wilson families through his daughters have continued to exist. > > > > > ==== OHLAKE Mailing List ==== > Visit the USGenWeb Lake County site at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohlake/ > > >